For people in central Missouri who need medical detox, the nearest supervised option has often meant a long drive. A residential addiction treatment center in Marshall, Missouri is now offering medically supported withdrawal care alongside …
People arriving for medical detox from a kratom-derived compound called 7-OH often did not know they were taking an opioid. That is the clinical problem Florida detox programs describe, and it is about to collide …
Medication-assisted treatment often begins during a hospital stay, and whether it continues afterward often comes down to what happens in the hours before discharge. Heidi Bray, DNP, a nurse practitioner and hospitalist at Providence St. …
For half a century, methadone for opioid use disorder has been available in the United States only through federally certified opioid treatment programs and approved providers. A reintroduced bipartisan bill would change that, and the …
Anyone arranging medical detox for methamphetamine runs into a gap that doesn’t exist for alcohol or opioids. The FDA has approved no medication to treat methamphetamine use disorder or to manage withdrawal from it. A …
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